All I remember about Rage is buying it and then immediately refunding it. This was several years after release and somehow it still had stupid issues with Radeon video cards. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

I suppose maybe that’s fixed by now, but I never went back.

The patent is a lot less interesting than it sounds initially.

It instantly made me think of the original Borderlands and how my friends and I would try to see how long we could “bounce” on each others heads, because if you jump on top of another character, you’ll just keep “bouncing” off of their head.

It’s tricky to keep landing on them, even if they’re not moving!

I kind of figured they meant that something dumb like that could be turned into an actual mini-game within a game, allowing you keep score.

No, the patent is way fucking dumber, sounds like more stupid AI bullshit, and basically focused on dumb streamer shit.

how Sony and Arrowhead kinda shot themselves in the foot with account linking.

The graph from the article literally proves the opposite.

Account linking happened May 6th. It is on the graph as point “A.”

There is a small increase in the decline of the player count, but you had already lost almost 200,000 players since the last peak on April 1st!

So between April 1st and May 6th the game went from around 370,000 players to around 170,000 players, and the current player count literally can’t drop the same level because that would be less than zero.

So, the bigger drop came way before account linking, friend. The game was already dying, and the account linking just firmly put it out of its misery.

Gender and sexual identity are way more fluid than people want to give credit for.

So looking for a “final answer” at any point in your life might be biting off more than you can chew.

I’m a cis-man, but I’m personally with the Gender Anarchy folks. We’re stuck in weird gender roles that literally don’t matter anymore and maybe androgyny or things like it truly are the way forward.

Synema is not a Democrat, and it says so right there on the linked page. She switched to Independent after righteously screwing the party along with Manchin. For what it’s worth, Manchin changed to Independent as well.

Both parties are more successful as opposition parties than they are actually “leading.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

This is the NYT literally apologizing for their massive fuckups in the lead up to the War in Iraq where they basically just accepted the Party Line of what was going on. Democrats fell in line as to not be viewed as “soft on terror.”

They took Republican administration officials at their word and didn’t do anymore digging.

…but sure hyping up a war pushed by a Republican administration based on lies made up by that same administration is soooooooo liberal.

lmao narrative

Jesus Christ get a grip.

I guess the NYT definitely didn’t hype us up for war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nope, never.

The NYT never breathlessly repeated the accusations of Weapons of Mass Destruction without questioning their sources as to the validity of those claims, yup.

You gotta be fucking shitting me.

EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

The NYT outright admitting they just sold the entire country lies for the Bush admin.

They got it from an AI because doing your own research is too hard, apparently. These are all Brave browser AI summaries.

This chucklefuck who doesn’t know how to do research thinks he can wing it using an AI.

EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

Here’s the NYT apologizing for their massive fuckups in the leadup to the War in Iraq because they were too busy NOT questioning anything the Bush administration had to say and were busy covering up stories for them. WHOOPSIE DOODLES.

Sounds real fucking liberal to me. /s

Man, maybe you’re getting downvoted hard because you’re busy using an AI to do your fucking thinking for you instead of digging up relevant information yourself to prove it.

Nice attempt at sidestepping how often they capitulate to Republican administrations.

Georgia’s largest newspaper or the New York Times aren’t right leaning at all

In fucking fantasy-land maybe.

New York Times literally sat on a story about illegal wiretapping on US citizens by the NSA for over a year at the behest of the Bush administration.

I would think someone with the username NoSuchAgency might be familiar with that…

The main people who the NYT are aimed at are literally rich New Yorkers with an extra house in the Hamptons. You can look at their Leisure section and it becomes ridiculously clear they’re catering to an elite set and not regular people.

Sorry, but the rich elite generally are way more conservative than your average person, even if they claim liberalism.

EDIT: Let’s not forget how absolutely HYPED the NYT was for THE WAR ON TERROR.

EDIT II: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

Excellent point, I wasn’t aware of that one. Not that we should always treat the past as indicative of the future, but rather, it’s clear that choosing such a path is playing with fire. For a litany of reasons.

Sadly, with Trump, we can’t afford to play with fire, period.

Exactly, the moment to replace him was from the get-go. Now we’re logistically in too deep without splitting the entire party and essentially just handing the win to Trump. (Thanks so much DNC, it’s totally clear you know better than the voters in your own party. /s)

I blame ineffectual Democrats who are more concerned with their power inside their own party for the rise of fascism as much as the fascists themselves, because their fucking buffoonery and chicanery literally enable the fascist Republican crime spree.

I mean fuck, look how long they carted out Dianne Feinstein pretending she was still a functional human being instead of just running anyone the fuck else.

Because he is. Even if we don’t like him. Even if we think his handling of Israel is fucking disgusting. Even if we think he’s too god damned old.

Trying to run someone new without any primaries now would almost assuredly leave us with a worse candidate and a splintered voting bloc.

Why? Because without primaries, it’s basically in the DNC’s hands to choose a new candidate, which they are totally allowed to do as a private organization. I know this because they never legally argued that they didn’t put their finger on the scale for Hillary Clinton in court, they argued that as a private organization, the DNC is allowed to make its own rules and break its own rules. (The law was on their side, so they pounded the law, since the facts would have said they totally did put a finger on the scale for her.)

How many Democratic voters do you think are going to line up for a party-chosen candidate? What if they did “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.” I think a lot of voters would be real unhappy with that.

Even if the party chose to let their delegates choose a candidate at the convention (less than two months away), it could easily turn into an absolute shitshow and also split the party vote.

Biden is who we’ve got and we can accept that or fuck up our chances for any semblance of democracy even more.

I mean, not trying to bash Biden, just being fucking honest here.

What did people expect from the guy who responded to years of anti-police protests that were basically asking “please stop killing us” that were responded to by police by becoming a police riot by… *checks notes… massively increasing police budgets nationwide.

I understand how they operate. I gave a personal example of how almost nobody goes to local Live Nation venues because of the expense when there’s a bunch of cheap, local shows in similarly-sized venues.

Does it mean “Artist A” doesn’t come to our city? Yeah, who gives a shit?

Counterpoint:

I live in a smaller, but still relatively big, city in the Northwest. Similar vibe to Portland but smaller.

I searched and counted a total of 6 venues that use Live Nation.

(To be fair, it had more listed, but a couple have been closed since before COVID so Live Nation isn’t exactly updating this list regularly. At least one of these venues has changed hands of ownership a few times in that time, so are they still contracted with Live Nation? Who the fuck knows, I’d have to ask in person to know for sure.)

Other than a Performing Arts Center, basically all of them have much weaker attendance for their shows than pretty much any other venue that isn’t associated with Live Nation.

Literally, I can count, off the top of my head, more venues that don’t have agreements with Live Nation. All these venues get tons of locals showing up, partially because of how cheap the shows are. We also still have a handful of weird houses that do punk shows.

Also, some of these Live Nation places are literally just fucking Old People places, like the local Elk’s Lodge. Nobody is doing wild concerts at the fucking Elk’s Lodge.

Live Nation can have a presence in your area and the local music scene can still be thriving outside of it.

Portland isn’t the only city that still has a vibrant local music scene, with or without Live Nation.

The judiciary which has a backlog of cases and this will further create a backlog.

Lawyers must be happy about endless billable hours, of course.

And sadly clearly does not think voice actors deserve the same protections as film actors.

Their union deals were a win for everyone but voice actors it seems.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2024/01/10/video-game-voice-actors-criticize-sag-aftra-over-agreement-with-ai-company/

Oh no, just like if you were actually hired to do a red team simulation for a business! They would have strict rules of engagement and certain systems would potentially be defined as off-limits.

How terrible of Hackthebox to *checks notes… promote industry standard Red Team practices.